[WBEL-users] easy to use firewall?

[Randy Kelsoe]

Ganeshram Iyer wrote:

>Hello all,
>I am quite a newbie to the Linux server and am failing miserably in
>trying to setup the rules for the firewall that came with WBEL/RHEL 3
>AS. With no easy to use GUI that can do the following:
>1) SAMBA PDC for about 15 WinXP/2K clients
>2) HTTP/HTTPS server
>3) SSH server
>
>my firewall is currently turned off although the whole lan is
>separated from the internet using a hardware router/firewall though it
>has failed me before to prevent brute force attacks. Could someone
>please suggest an easy to use firewall with a GUI that is as simple to
>setup as the XP firewall? a bunch of checkboxes for a few of the
>services on the LAN and thats all.
>

Try redhat-config-securitylevel or get firestarter:

    http://www.fs-security.com/